The experience with electroencephalography at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
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1992-05Author
Kwasa, Thomas O O
Muthingi, P M
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Review of electroencephalography (EEG) requests at KNH over a 3 year period is presented. Majority of patients were aged between 0 and 10 years. None was older than 80 years. The epilepsies were the commonest reason for requesting EEG (58.5%). SSPE had the highest positivity rate of 91.7% followed by convulsive states of uncertain aetiology. The symptom of headache by itself was the least rewarding to study by EEG. It was more rewarding to first attempt to make a diagnosis of the headache. Hysteria had an EEG positivity rate of 40%, most of them being epilepsy. EEG picture for petit-mal, epilepsy focal seizure and generalized seizures are included in the text.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1644044http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/29889
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East Afr Med J. 1992 May;69(5):259-61Publisher
University of Nairobi. Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi
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